News: AMD Price drop

[triple_A]

Well, if they are losing market share even with the price cuts, think about how much more market share they would lose if they don't cut prices. I wonder how much R&D and retooling it costs to do MCM, cuz if K10 is more than half a year away, if AMD come out with a stop gap quad core (with two Brisbanes) and sell it for $200-250, they should get back quite a bit of market share from the video editor and renderer segments.

yeah a cheap-ass-brisbane-based-quad-core would be lovely

[vitaminc]

Well, if they are losing market share even with the price cuts, think about how much more market share they would lose if they don't cut prices. I wonder how much R&D and retooling it costs to do MCM, cuz if K10 is more than half a year away, if AMD come out with a stop gap quad core (with two Brisbanes) and sell it for $200-250, they should get back quite a bit of market share from the video editor and renderer segments.

Theres little or no retooling required/needed. MCM is all assembly/packaging related design, similar to dye stacking or system-in-package.

But their pride of not using MCM is hurting their market share right now.

[[LCN]Knowledge]

WoW, ultra low prices, my friend just bought a 3000+ for 120 bucks like 5 months ago haha.

[breakfromyou]

Almost..the 4800 should be 2.4Ghz with 2MB L2

Wrong. 2.5 Ghz, 512kb L2 cache per core.

There are no 65nm processors with 1 MB of L2 cache per core. Instead, AMD raised the multiplier by a half. 100 MHz makes up the difference of cutting the amount of L2 cache in half.

[arisythila]

2007 sure is a good year for consumers. Intel will cut prices april 22. And again in Q3. AMD will follow that too in Q3...its a win/win for us

No, I think AMD will follow intel in the price cut....

[Shintai]

No, I think AMD will follow intel in the price cut....

Yes ofcourse..just like they cut their price on April 9 in advance for Intels 22th....read up!

[freakBYnature]

man, the prices are going way low ... is it possible?
like, its nice for us, but I feel bad about AMD, whats the point doing this?
Is it really that MARKET SHARE-THING? This must be some bigger strategy, and its concerning what AMD has to do to "keep up" with Intel today, I hope the K10 will be released ASAP ...

Maybe they need cash to manufacture K10? We, or atleast I know that dropping prices makes more people buy - and in the end one makes more money Maybe that's the strategy?